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Tuesday, September 28, 2021
7:30 - 8:30 AM | Registration & Continental Breakfast: Grand Ballroom Lobby
8:15 - 8:30 AM | Welcome and Kick-Off
8:30 - 10:00 AM | Keynote Session | Sponsored by PresenceLearning
Room | Grand Ballroom
With Change Comes Opportunity
Speakers: Laurie Vanderploeg, Immediate Past Director of Office of Special Education & current Associate Executive Director of CEC
Let’s focus on how change can bring new opportunities and how new opportunities can facilitate change. How unpredictable and predictable change can move us into action. How action can impact results and sustainable systems.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Break with Vendors
10:30 - 11:30 AM | Concurrent Sessions
1. Moving from In-Person to Virtual Environments
Speakers: Sharon Madsen and Daniel Parker, Wisconsin DPI
Room | B/D
Wisconsin DPI developed an online guide and several video presentations during COVID-19 on how to review and revise IEP when moving from in-person to a virtual learning environment. In Wisconsin and nationally, there has been a large amount of guidance (both in terms of special education legal requirements as well as best practice) on what and how IEP teams should focus upon when moving to a virtual learning environment. This presentation will work off of the main concepts of DPI’s guide to implementing IEP and monitoring progress of IEP goals when moving between in-person to virtual or Hhybrid learning environments.
2. SEL and Mental Health is the Work of ALL in Education
Speakers: Lisa Stein WCRS Statewide Coach and Stacey Starke, WCRS Statewide Coach
Room | Upper Dells Ballroom
This presentation will be highly interactive and collaborative. Participants will be given information and instruction on how to use processes and protocols to review their current frameworks and systems within their schools and/or districts, while also envisioning what they imagine a high quality, equitable mental health and wellbeing program could look like in their setting. Time will be given to use those processes and protocols to reflect on their current frameworks and systems within their schools or districts and dream about what could be.
3. Town Hall Meeting
Speaker: Laurie Vanderploeg, Immediate Past Director of Office of Special Education & current Associate Executive Director of CEC
Room | A/C
4. Extending Best Practices: Communities of Care Through TIG (Trauma, Illness, Grief)
Speakers: Jackie Winter, Director of Pupil Services, Whitnall SD, Kaari Olson, Director of Student Services, Muskego-Norway SD, Amy Scheel-Jones, Senior Consultant, Coordinated Care Services, and Sue Doyle, Director of Special Education and Pupil Services, CESA 1
Room | E/F
Outcomes improve and students thrive in environments that are safe, supported and responsive. Schools and districts are engaged in transformation efforts to evolve practices, procedures, and policies to be trauma-responsive and equity-focused. Significant investment has been made in raising awareness of the impact of trauma and adversity on brains, bodies, and behaviors yet education professionals continue to voice concern that there is an application gap between “knowing” and “doing”. Based on the CESA 1 region’s pilot of the TIG Core Curriculum, this session will offer a real-world example of a model that supports districts in these shared and high-stakes responsibilities. Presenters will provide an overview of the model, including the comprehensive training components and the infrastructure of the sustainable crisis response networks.
11:45 - 1:00 PM | Lunch and General Membership Meeting
1:00 - 1:30 PM | Dessert and Visit with Vendors | Sponsored by SpEd Forms
1:30 - 2:30 PM | Concurrent Sessions
1. Supporting Our LGTBQ+ Population
Speaker: Lisa Koenecke, Adjunct Faculty Instructor, Lakeland University
Room | Upper Dells Ballroom
Pronouns, name changes, and restroom usage are just a few of the areas we will discuss. Rural, suburban, and urban school districts are seeing more students coming out as their true identities. Lisa Koenecke has over 20 years of experience in this area. She was a secondary school counselor for 12 years and served at the state and national levels of leadership. In her TEDX talk, she explains her shift when a 12-year-old came out to her. This story was the catalyst to her best-selling book: Be an Inclusion Ally: ABCs of LGBTQ+. Engaging, funny and life-changing are words used to describe her presentations in the 30 states she has presented. Walk away with free resources, understandings of current laws, and vocabulary to help your district keep these students alive! Thanks for shifting from a small “a” ally to a capital “A” ALLY!
2. Education Equity in Special Education USDA’s Journey
Speakers: Heidi Siebert-Preul, Director of Pupil Services/Special Education, and Megan Murphy, School Psychologist, Antigo SD
Room | E/F
The purpose of our presentation will be to share the deep personal, practical, and systemic work that the USDA has done over the last 2 years around equity, specifically asking tough questions regarding how we are identifying students with disabilities and how we are servicing them through a commitment to equity.
3. Humanistic Leadership
Speaker: Nick Pretasky, Associate Director, WRCCS
Room | A/C
This presentation is a guided conversation with the participants about the core principles of humanistic leadership. Each component of Humanistic Leadership: 1. Self-reflection and INNER WORK, 2. Relentless pursuit to build TRUST, 3. LISTEN FIRST since leadership is service to others, 4. Accept Responsibility and believe in DAILY GROWTH, and 5. Have a STRATEGY, system or plan will be shared and discussed. I will use stories and experiences from my days as a wilderness guide and how this work impacted the way I led my school.
4. Critical Incident Response Team Project
Speaker: Kelly Dejonge, Critical Incident Response Coordinator, Wisconsin Department of Justice
Room | B/D
This presentation is designed to provide an overview of the regionally based Critical Incident Response (CIR) teams that are being developed statewide. The CIR teams will provide support, resources, and assistance to all K-12 school districts in Wisconsin that have been faced with a critical incident. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn how to become involved on a CIR team in their region.
2:30 - 2:45 PM | Break
2:45 - 3:45 PM | General Session
Revisions to Disability Category Criteria Within Comprehensive Special Education Evaluation
Speakers: WDPI Staff
In spring 2020, Wisconsin DPI submitted 6 of 12 disability category criteria for rule making revisions. This presentation will provide a high level “what special education directors need to know” so that they are better equipped to then determine which DPI resources and information they will need to direct their staff to engage in further learning. This presentation will also provide related to Bulletin 21.01 Special Education Evaluation, revised disability category criteria worksheets, and the revised ER-1 evaluation report.
4:30-6:00 PM WELCOME SOCIAL: Sponsored by Buikema, Olson & Vliet, LLC
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